Article February 17, 1986 Issue

We can overcome the dismal belief of lack

ROBERT A. MOSS

Lack is so common and fundamental an error in human experience that it is often accepted and put up with as inevitable. I speak from experience. After suffering for years from lack that brought constant worry about unpaid debts and what the future held, I was awakened by this statement in Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy: "In divine Science, where prayers are mental, all may avail themselves of God as 'a very present help in trouble.' Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals. It is the open fount which cries, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.' " ^{Science and Health, pp. 12–13.}

I began to see that the good which friends and neighbors were enjoying and from which I seemed to be excluded was just as much my divine birthright as theirs. Realization of this inspiring truth began to break the mesmerism that had shadowed daily life and had resulted in pinching and scraping, and doubt about tomorrow as well as today.

Lack—which is only a belief in limitation, based on the material sense of things—progressively gave way before the understanding that substance is spiritual, the gift of God, who is Love and who perpetually cares for and supplies the beloved children of His spiritual creation.

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